There is an issue whether or not the President has the power to authorize wiretapping without court approval - seems like a reasonable subject for discussion. Now the Conservative talking faces have decided that the issue is not whether the President has overstepped his authority, but rather that someone leaked the program.
Now, if it turns out that what he did was legal, THEN the persons involved should be investigated. HOWEVER, let's look at this logically. If the President (or anyone in power) was doing something illegally, and no one could speak out because it was against the law, how would anyone ever know something illegal was going on???
The person(s) who leaked the story, and the reporters who wrote the story, probably are very well aware how serious this is and that they could be procescuted. That might be why they held the story for so long. It seems they were even asked by the White House (so someone asked or told the White House about this) to sit on the story.
The problem I have a hard time grasping, is if it is illegal to point out something illegal, our laws are truly messed up.
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